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...world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom just before Inauguration. Indeed, throughout the film, as she reports each carefully leaked piece...
...century whorehouse décor of red plush and smoked mirrors. Elvis subsisted on a diet of charred bacon, mashed potatoes and very sophisticated opiates and uppers. His affairs in shambles, he fired most of his faithful retinue in a paranoid frenzy of firearms and pills. An abject drug addict, he flew to Washington for a spur-of-the-moment meeting with Richard Nixon in connection with his role as a spokesman for the President's antidrug campaign. Said Nixon: "You dress pretty wild, don't you?" Replied the sedated Elvis: "Mr. President, you got your show...
...former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo...
...Reagan administration, governed by the long-term misconception that drug addiction is a moral failure and not a physiological phenomenon rooted in serious social inequities, is treating drug problems as a low priority item. There are an estimated 12,000 heroin addicts living in Massachusetts, and the number of emergency room heroin-related cases in the state's hospitals is up by 4 or 5 percent. Rehabilitaion officials are finding the Reagan budget curs crippling to an already chronically underfunded social service. The combined effects of the recently passed federal block grants, Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, and budget cuts...
...addict speaks of his experience with methodone. "I, like anybody else who uses the stuff, just transferred addictions. The government says we can't do dope, so we line up at the juice center and get methodone instead. Half the junkies out there are addicted to methodone and mixing it with other drugs. When I was on methadone, because it was such a downer, I would get my treatment dose, start to nod, them mix it with a little coke so I could keep tuned in. The withdrawal from methadone is far more severe than from heroin, and it takes...